| vivster said: Actually all you do is proving my point. The Wii's biggest System sellers weren't Mario games but Wii Sports and the price point. I still do not think that the majority of people buys a console for a single Mario game. They don't go into the store and say: "Oh gosh NSMB came out I just have to possess a Wii to play this game." No, they're going: "Oh look this new game console is on sale. I heard really good things about it and it has a lot of games. Oh and while we're at it we'll take this Mario game. Mario is quite popular with the kids I heard. And that is exactly why Mario sells great on already popular systems and won't do much for struggling systems like GC or WiiU. I don't believe there is a 20+million fanbase out there who buys a console just for a Mario game. |
No, he's actually doing the opposite of proving your point. He's trying to show that NSMBW pushed more hardware units than were selling before NSMBW came out. it's simple to determine if this has some merit or not. Just go look at VGC historical data around the NSMBW launch.
The Wii was NOT a new console and piece of fad hardware at the end of 2009, when people had been talking about it and seen it on the market for over 3 years.
There is not a 20 million strong fanbase of Mario. But seeing Mario did apparently help some of those people choose to buy a Wii.
